[cifs-protocol] Incoherent values in MS-FRS1.pdf in comparison to traces

Matthieu Patou mat at samba.org
Fri Aug 26 09:38:31 MDT 2011


I guess here I've been caught by the presentation of the documentation, 
when command X says what you should expect in command Y (on reply to 
command X).


Matthieu.

On 24/08/2011 18:35, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Hello Dochelp team,
>
>
> Paragraph 3.3.4.4.3  COMM_COMMAND Is CMD_START_JOIN says:
>
> "COMM_VVECTOR is the local member version vector. If the local member 
> knows m originators in its
> version vector, there MUST be m COMM_VVECTOR elements in the packet, 
> one for each originator.
> COMM_JOIN_TIME MUST be the current time."
>
> Traces between Window servers show no COMM_VVECTOR packet and no 
> COMM_JOIN_TIME (for a SYSVOL replication), you can see it in the trace 
> http://imaps.matws.net/mat/misc/joinfrs.gz  at packet 4643. To decode 
> it you'll also need the attached keytab. It's worth noting that 
> example on page 138 didn't show this packets as well.
>
>
> Note in order to see the FRS packet you'll need a pretty recent 
> version of wireshark as I did the dissector for it not so long ago, 
> you can get a nightly build of wireshark at 
> http://www.wireshark.org/download/automated/win32/ and you need a 
> version with a SVN revision > 38476.
>
> Can you explain ?
>
>
> Matthieu.
>


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